Ffestiniog Power Station
The Ffestiniog Power Station is a 360-megawatt pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme near Ffestiniog, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The power station at the lower reservoir has four water turbines, which can generate at full capacity within 60 seconds of the need arising.Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tanygrisiau railway station and Moel-yr-hydd.
Tanygrisiau railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tanygrisiau railway station is a passenger station on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway The line was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea but official passenger services began in 1865. Tanygrisiau railway station is situated 2,200 feet northeast of Ffestiniog Power Station.
Moel-yr-hydd
Peak
Photo: Gabby77, Public domain.
Moel-yr-hydd is a subsidiary summit of Moelwyn Mawr in Snowdonia, North Wales and forms part of the Moelwynion. The mountain overlooks the village of Tanygrisiau and Tanygrisiau railway station from where the mountain can easily be ascended.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tanygrisiau and Manod.
Tanygrisiau
Village
Photo: Ross Burgess, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tanygrisiau is a village and area within Blaenau Ffestiniog in the upper end of the Vale of Ffestiniog in the county of Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It can be found along the southern side of the Moelwyn mountain range and dates to around 1750.
Manod
Village
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Manod is a village, which is situated 1½ miles east of Ffestiniog Power Station.
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blaenau Ffestiniog is a small town in the Snowdonia Mountains in Wales. Blaenau Ffestiniog is a former slate-mining village and consists of one main road with all the others leading off it. Many visitors come to ride the historic narrow-gauge railway.
Ffestiniog Power Station
- Type: Power station
- Description: hydroelectric pumped-storage power station in Wales
- Categories: pumped-storage power station and industry
- Location: Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.98062° or 52° 58′ 50″ northLongitude
-3.96847° or 3° 58′ 7″ westOperator
First HydroOpen location code
9C4RX2JJ+6JOpenStreetMap ID
way 402796795Wikidata ID
Q5446209
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Japanese to Welsh—“Ffestiniog Power Station” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “フェスティニオグ発電所”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ffestiniog vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stwlan-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Ffestiniog vannkraftverk”
- Ukrainian: “ГАЕС Фестиніог”
- Welsh: “Orsaf Bŵer Ffestiniog”
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